Patents by Inventor Kazuki Maeda

Kazuki Maeda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220151227
    Abstract: An object is to provide a chemical agent that, when used on carnivorous wasps such as those belonging to the Vespidae family, instantly stops them from behaving normally, to prevent injuries caused by stings and bites. As a solution, a carnivorous wasp control agent is provided, which is characterized in that it contains, as an active ingredient, at least one type of compound selected from the group that consists of (a) cyclic monoterpene-based compounds, (b) chain monoterpene-based aldehyde compounds, (c) chain sesquiterpene-based compounds, (d) benzoic acid alkyl esters, (e) lactic acid alkyl esters, (f) octanols, and (g) phenylacetic acid esters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Ren ABE, Kazuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220117083
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a patterned fiber substrate comprising: a fiber substrate; and a pattern consisting of a functional material and formed on the fiber substrate, wherein at least a part of the functional material that constitutes the pattern is present in inside of the fiber substrate, the fiber substrate has a contact angle of 100 to 170° with pure water on its surface, and the pattern has a narrowest line width of 1 to 3000 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicants: KURARAY CO., LTD., OSAKA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kohei HAYASHI, Soichi OBATA, Yasuhiro SHIROTANI, Masashi NITANI, Mayumi UNO, Kazuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220086971
    Abstract: A high-frequency heating apparatus includes heating chamber (1), generator (2), radiator (3), and controller (30). Heating chamber (1) has a wall surface including metal, and accommodates object (4) to be heated. Generator (2) generates high-frequency power at any frequency in a band of 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz. Radiator (3) includes loop antenna (3) including a plurality of loop portions (3A, 3B), and radiates the high-frequency power generated by generator (2) to heating chamber (1). Controller (30) controls a frequency of the high-frequency power generated by generator (2). According to this aspect, a heating target can be uniformly heated or partially heated without a waveguide for transmitting high-frequency power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: KAZUKI MAEDA, DAISUKE HOSOKAWA, YOSHIHARU OOMORI
  • Patent number: 11178764
    Abstract: A flexible substrate and an electronic device having high flexibility as a whole including an element mounting portion and a connection terminal portion, and a production method of the electronic device are provided. The flexible substrate includes a flexible base, and a conductive wiring made of a conductive organic compound formed on the base, wherein part of the conductive wiring serves as a connection part with another electronic member. Further, an electronic device 100 includes flexible bases 11 and 21, conductive wirings 13 and 23 made of a conductive organic compound formed on the bases, and electronic elements 12 and 22 connected to the conductive wirings, wherein part of the conductive wiring serves as a connection part 30 with another substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: Pi-Crystal Incorporation, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Mayumi Uno, Kazuki Maeda, Masashi Nitani, Busang Cha, Junichi Takeya
  • Patent number: 11147162
    Abstract: A flexible substrate and an electronic device having high flexibility as a whole including an element mounting portion and a connection terminal portion, and a production method of the electronic device are provided. The flexible substrate includes a flexible base, and a conductive wiring made of a conductive organic compound formed on the base, wherein part of the conductive wiring serves as a connection part with another electronic member. Further, an electronic device 100 includes flexible bases 11 and 21, conductive wirings 13 and 23 made of a conductive organic compound formed on the bases, and electronic elements 12 and 22 connected to the conductive wirings, wherein part of the conductive wiring serves as a connection part 30 with another substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignees: Pi-Crystal Incorporation, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Mayumi Uno, Kazuki Maeda, Masashi Nitani, Busang Cha, Junichi Takeya
  • Publication number: 20210296600
    Abstract: A flexible substrate and an electronic device having high flexibility as a whole including an element mounting portion and a connection terminal portion, and a production method of the electronic device are provided. The flexible substrate includes a flexible base, and a conductive wiring made of a conductive organic compound formed on the base, wherein part of the conductive wiring serves as a connection part with another electronic member. Further, an electronic device 100 includes flexible bases 11 and 21, conductive wirings 13 and 23 made of a conductive organic compound formed on the bases, and electronic elements 12 and 22 connected to the conductive wirings, wherein part of the conductive wiring serves as a connection part 30 with another substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Mayumi UNO, Kazuki MAEDA, Masashi NITANI, Busang CHA, Junichi TAKEYA
  • Publication number: 20210203024
    Abstract: A coin-type secondary cell for soldering by reflow method includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte layer, and a cell case. The cell case has an enclosed space in which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the electrolyte layer are housed. The cell case includes a positive electrode can, a negative electrode can, and a gasket. The positive electrode can and the negative electrode can have plate thicknesses of 0.075 to 0.25 mm and are different in plate thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu YURA, Kazuki MAEDA, Akira URAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210203025
    Abstract: A coin-type lithium secondary cell for soldering by reflow method includes a positive electrode including a lithium composite oxide, a negative electrode, an electrolyte layer provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and including an electrolytic solution, a cell case having an enclosed space in which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the electrolyte layer are housed. The positive electrode and the negative electrode as a whole contains 3.0% by mass or less of lithium carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu YURA, Kazuki MAEDA, Masanori TAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210184269
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a wiring board, a coin-type secondary cell that is a lithium secondary cell electrically connected to the wiring board by reflow soldering, and a wireless communication device electrically connected to the wiring board. The coin-type secondary cell includes a positive electrode including a sintered body, a negative electrode including a sintered body, an electrolyte layer provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a cell case having an enclosed space in which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the electrolyte layer are housed. When C is given as the capacity of the positive electrode and A is given as the capacity of the negative electrode, 1.03<C/A<1.60 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu YURA, Kazuki MAEDA, Shunsuke MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210184241
    Abstract: A coin-type secondary cell for soldering by reflow method includes a porous positive electrode, a porous negative electrode, a porous separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, an electrolytic solution with which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are impregnated, and a cell case having an enclosed space in which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, the separator, and the electrolytic solution are housed. A value obtained by dividing the amount of the electrolytic solution by the sum of the amounts of voids in the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator ranges from 1.025 to 2.4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu YURA, Kazuki MAEDA, Akira URAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210043919
    Abstract: Provided is a coin-shaped lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode plate which is a lithium complex oxide sintered plate; a negative electrode plate which is a titanium-containing sintered plate; a separator interposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate; an electrolytic solution with which the positive electrode plate, the negative electrode, and the separator are impregnated; and an exterior body having a closed space, the closed space accommodating the positive electrode plate, the negative electrode plate, the separator, and the electrolytic solution, the lithium secondary battery having a thickness of 0.7 to 1.6 mm and a diameter of 10 to 20 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu YURA, Kazuki MAEDA, Shunsuke MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200344880
    Abstract: A flexible substrate and an electronic device having high flexibility as a whole including an element mounting portion and a connection terminal portion, and a production method of the electronic device are provided. The flexible substrate includes a flexible base, and a conductive wiring made of a conductive organic compound formed on the base, wherein part of the conductive wiring serves as a connection part with another electronic member. Further, an electronic device 100 includes flexible bases 11 and 21, conductive wirings 13 and 23 made of a conductive organic compound formed on the bases, and electronic elements 12 and 22 connected to the conductive wirings, wherein part of the conductive wiring serves as a connection part 30 with another substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Mayumi UNO, Kazuki MAEDA, Masashi NITANI, Busang CHA, Junichi TAKEYA
  • Publication number: 20190097284
    Abstract: A power storage device pack includes a housing and a power storage device module fixed to the housing. The power storage device module includes a plurality of power storage devices arranged in one direction, a pair of binding members configured to bind the power storage devices at both ends in the one direction, an elastic member arranged between one of the binding members and one of the power storage devices and configured to absorb expansion of the power storage devices, and a plurality of heat-transfer plates arranged so as to respectively make contact with the power storage devices. A plurality of heat-conduction members are configured to respectively conduct heat from the heat-transfer plates to the housing, and a plurality of sliding members respectively joined to first ends of the heat-conduction members and relatively slidable in the one direction, are arranged between the heat-transfer plates and the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Fumihiko ISHIGURO, Takayuki KATO, Hiromi UEDA, Kazuki MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10128474
    Abstract: A battery module includes a first battery stack, a second battery stack, a first bracket, and a second bracket. The first and second battery stacks each have a plurality of rechargeable batteries. The first battery stack has an end adjacent to the second battery stack, and the second battery stack has an end adjacent to the first battery stack. The first bracket is provided at the end of the first battery stack. The second bracket is provided at the end of the second battery stack and has the same shape as the first bracket. Each of the first bracket and the second bracket has insertion protrusions and receiving recesses that are alternately arranged. One of the insertion protrusions of the second bracket is inserted into the receiving recess formed between adjacent two of the insertion protrusions of the first bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hiromi Ueda, Takahisa Sugimoto, Shintaro Watanabe, Hidefumi Oishi, Takashi Sakai, Naoto Morisaku, Kazuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10025286
    Abstract: A programmable controller includes a command executing engine unit that performs a user program and performs a computing process and nonvolatile memory that stores the result of the computing process. The command executing engine unit transitions to a temporary stop state in which a new cycle of computing process is not performed and stores the result of a cycle of computing process in the nonvolatile memory when the cycle of computing process of the user program ends, and releases the temporary stop state and transmits the result of the cycle of computing process stored in the nonvolatile memory to a simulation device when a stop release instructing command instructing to release the temporary stop state is received from the simulation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Tanide, Kazuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10003050
    Abstract: A battery module includes a battery cell, a heat transfer plate, and a holder. The heat transfer plate is arranged side by side with the battery cell and has an edge and is thermally coupled to the battery cell. The holder holds the battery cell and that has a cutout section to which the heat transfer plate is fitted. The edge of the heat-transmitting plate has a first engagement section that is at least one of a first recess and a first protrusion. The holder has a second engagement section that is at least one of a second protrusion, which is fitted to the first recess and a second protrusions, which is fitted to the first protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Naoto Morisaku, Takayuki Kato, Shintaro Watanabe, Hidefumi Oishi, Takashi Sakai, Yuki Chujo, Hiromi Ueda, Kazuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 9972870
    Abstract: A battery module includes battery cells arranged side by side, two end plates sandwiching the battery cells, an elastic body, and a cover. The cover includes a first cover member and a second cover member. The battery module includes a cable that electrically connects a first electronic component and a second electronic component to each other. The cable has a bent portion capable of being deformed in accordance with relative movement between the first cover member and the second cover member in the arrangement direction. The cover includes support portions that support the cable to maintain the shape of the bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kazuki Maeda, Takayuki Kato, Hiromi Ueda, Hidefumi Oishi, Naoto Morisaku
  • Patent number: 9917338
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery module including a plurality of cells, a housing that accommodates the battery module and is thermally coupled to the battery module, and a temperature adjuster that is thermally coupled and attached to the housing. The temperature adjuster changes a temperature of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hidefumi Oishi, Takayuki Kato, Hirohisa Kato, Hiromi Ueda, Fumihiko Ishiguro, Naoto Morisaku, Kazuki Maeda, Takashi Sakai, Shintaro Watanabe, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Yuki Chujo
  • Patent number: 9905823
    Abstract: A second battery module is stacked on a first battery module. A control device is mounted on a mounting plate of the first battery module. The control device is arranged between the first battery module and the second battery module. A control device of the first battery module is arranged between inner surfaces of first bolt insertion portions and inner surfaces of second bolt insertion portions of second battery holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kazuki Maeda, Takayuki Kato, Hiromi Ueda, Naoto Morisaku
  • Patent number: 9905828
    Abstract: This battery module is provided with: a cell having a connection terminal; and a bus bar that is connected to the connection terminal and has an upright standing part that extends in the direction in which the connection terminal protrudes. The bus bar is connected, via a conductive wire, to an object to be connected, which is provided at a position separate from the connection terminal in the extending direction of the upright standing part. The cell is configured so as to be charged and discharged through the bus bar and the conductive wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takashi Sakai, Takayuki Kato, Shintaro Watanabe, Hidefumi Oishi, Hiromi Ueda, Naoto Morisaku, Kazuki Maeda